Brigitte Bar�ges is a member of the National Assembly of France. She represents the Tarn-et-Garonne department, and is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement. She is mayor of Montauban since March 2001. She was reelected on 16 March 2008. Bar�ges sparked a controversy when she voiced brusque opposition to proposals for legalized same-sex marriage: "Why not let people get married to animals too?" Bar�ges sparked a controversy when she described a black person of her party as "humain stain". Bar�ges was punished by French courts because she refused to celebrate the wedding of a foreign couple. 

May 1st, 1953 in Toulouse (Age 71)